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Allsopp told Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine that her sons – Oscar Hercules and Bay Atlas – were playing games outside of the allotted time that had been agreed, so she “smashed” their iPads.

She told Vine: “This is the first time I’ve said this publicly. In June I smashed my kids’ iPads, not in a violent way. I actually banged them on the table leg.”

She continued: “There is a game called Fortnite and another PUBG and I decided… we had made all sorts of rules and all sorts of times when we said you can’t play them, and all those rules got broken and in the end I said: ‘Right that is it, I have to physically (break them).’”

2Kirstie Allsopp appears to no longer have an active Twitter account (PA).

The Location, Location, Location presenter faced a barrage of criticism on social media following her remarks.

In July 2017 she took a short break from Twitter after comments she made about washing machines belonging outside the kitchen caused a similar uproar.

During Monday’s appearance on The Jeremy Vine Show, TV presenter Storm Huntley said of Allsopp’s reveal: “I like that, that is my kind of parenting.”

Allsopp also previously made headlines when she spoke about travelling in business class, while her children travelled in economy class.